Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cras Cairn
Aber, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 29 January 2004
- Community
- Aber
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.21800, -4.01751
- SAM number
- CN346
- Cadw record number
- 4059
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a small burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within open moorland on the Cras ridge of crags on the N-facing slopes of Moel Wnion. The stone built cairn is circular on plan and measures about 9m in diameter and up to 0.6m in height. The cairn has been disturbed in the past, with the construction of a drystone shelter around a hollow dug into the centre; the remains of a stone cist have been exposed within the hollow.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 18m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Cras, cairn to N ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cras, ring cairn to N ofRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Settlement Above Ffridd DduHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle Settlement on Caer MynyddHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.